Table 1.

Some Descriptive Statistics by Sex of the Index Persons

	Men	Women
No. of ever bereaved persons	65 802	65 118
No. of nonbereaved persons	750 390	735 700
No. of deaths from myocardial infarction
In bereaved persons	469	134
In nonbereaved persons	5172	1225
No. of person‐years in
Bereaved persons	552 886	548 381
Nonbereaved persons	11 383 335	11 105 989
Percent of all sibling deaths from
Myocardial infarction	10.4	10.4
Other cardiovascular disease	13.3	13.3
Cancer	39.8	39.7
Other nonexternal cause	20.9	21.0
Suicide	6.8	7.0
Other external cause	8.6	8.6

Number of nonbereaved persons represents people in the 10% sample of people who did not experience the death of sibling.